How to Read My Lists

Since I'm about to embark on my reading lists, I'd like to create a model for how I'll read and take notes. Undoubtedly, this will change and shift as I read; however, I think it might be a useful activity to have considered as I approach reading. I'd like to take a little bit of space after each text to summarize them. Note which questions from my list they will be relevant to (and a few comments as to how). I'd like to note down any references to nonhuman bodies (especially in my rhetorics of the body list) by page number. Finally, to jot down any lingering questions or connections to other texts I notice.

When I label them then, I can use Activism1 (body1, animal1) to indicate the relevance to the first question on the activism list (etc.). This will help in my returning to study, as well as when I return to the texts in the future.

I'd also like to build in some time to reflect on the texts and see if alternate questions or categorizations would be more useful. Perhaps each week, I should take an hour or so to write reflectively about what I've read so far and the ideas that are bubbling up from them for me.

Argument:

Relevance to List Questions:

References to Nonhuman Bodies:

Important quotations:

Connections or Lingering Questions:

Introduction to Comprehensive Lists

            As I look back over my research projects at Northeastern, I’ve noticed a strong and sustained interest in political activism surrounding animals, and I would like to begin my dissertation with an eye toward what strategies the animal rights/welfare movements deploy and what is at stake in these approaches. Bioethics and biolaw are key areas to focus on in activism, not merely for activists concerned about animals, but for anyone concerned with ethical engagement with the Other (be that other human or nonhuman), and the animal rights/welfare movement is struggling currently with what strategy is best to address its current inadequacies. My exams will build toward this project by allowing me to deepen my knowledge of activism and writing, rhetoric of the body, and animal studies.

            While each list is separate, they all speak to broader trends within rhetoric and composition as well as interdisciplinary shifts. From object oriented ontologists to feminist corporeal theorists to ethologists to posthumanist new media scholars, academics are rethinking what is at stake in our assumptions of materiality and the body as well as how materiality produces meaning and escapes representation. For rhetoric and composition scholars, this has drawn our attention to everything from the role of circulation and material processes in meaning-making to questioning the agency of individual writers and revision without physical protest to exploring how the material body participates in the production of meaning. Rhetoric and composition has recently turned to animals as well. In a recent issue of JAC focused on animals, articles ranged from rhetorical analyses of the animal rights movement to representations of animals and human-animal relations in popular culture to the use of animalizing rhetoric in colonialism. Despite the range, each sought to explore the complexities of our relations with animals and what our ethical obligations to them ought to be. However, these trends also push us to rethink fundamental assumptions and practices of the discipline – what do we deem worthy of study, in what ways do we study them, how do we ethically represent them, and what is the role of the activist scholar. Finally, by exploring in my list on “Activism and Writing” how specific methodologies prompt taking up different objects of study and asking different questions of them, I hope to provide myself with a foundation for what methodologies would best suit my future research. 

Activism and Writing List

Activism and Writing: Community Literacy, Service-Learning, and Community Research

This list has assembled texts that allow me to explore how people participate in activism through different language practices in order to gain representation and resources as well as to struggle against discrimination and prejudice. By gathering texts in community literacy, service learning, and community-based research, I hope to explore how each understands and engages in activism and what is at stake in the different methodological approaches. I imagine these forms of activism occurring in the public sphere and over recognition in it. Simplified conceptions of public sphere theory imagined it as a space where individuals freely came together to identify societal problems and discuss how best to address them through reasoned debate and political action; however, critical theorists have problematized this conception by exploring the mechanisms through which individuals and groups are excluded from participation.

Shifting definitions of literacy has historically been one mechanism through which access to the public sphere has been regulated. Rather than imagining literacy as a set of skills (as in dominant approaches), scholars of community literacy conceive of it as a social practice, often taking place in contested relations of power. Their reliance on ethnography as a methodology also affords insight into how they relate to the community they study. While community literacy explores ongoing language practices, scholarship in service-learning encourages the university to combine writing instruction with community action in a variety of ways. One key aspect of service-learning is problematizing the relationship between the class and community in order to avoid detrimental assumptions, such as the work is charity, and as Janet Eyler argues, one tool through which assumptions can be brought to light and grappled with is through reflective writing before, during, and after the projects. If service-learning brings the classroom to the community, community-based research brings scholarly research outside of academia and its preoccupations. Ellen Cushman urges scholars to participate in “activist research” so that they help the communities in which they serve. Some key concerns for community-based research are how research topics are selected and prioritized, building ethical relationships between the university and community, and ensuring that marginalized voices are heard. Reading these texts will allow me to think about whose literacies are dominant in the public sphere, whose are marginal or resistant, how individuals struggle for representation and material resources, and what relationship exists between community and university. 

In particular, I’m interested in reading the list with the following questions in mind:

·         What is at stake in the different methodological approaches to language practices as activism?

·         What language practices are considered objects of study for each approach?

·         How do scholars theorize and understand their relationship to the community?

·         How do we imagine the space and place of the public sphere?

·         What strategies are used to exclude and gain entrance to the public sphere and other resources?

List:

Ackerman, John and David J. Coogan.. The Public Work of Rhetoric: Civic Scholars and Civic Engagement. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Print.

Adler-Kassner, Linda, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, eds. Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 1997. Print.

Anderson, Erin. “Global Street Papers and Homeless (Counter) Publics: Rethinking the Technologies of Community Publications.” Reflections 10.1 (2010):76-103. Print.

Anderson, Jim, Maureen Kendrick, Theresa Rogers, and Suzanne Smythe, eds.  Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: Intersections and Tensions. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005. Print.

Ashley, Hannah. "Between Civility and Conflict: Toward a Community Engaged Procedural Rhetoric." Reflections 5.1-2 (Spring 2006): 49-66. Print.

Barton and Hamilton. Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community. New York: Routledge, 1998. Print.

Branch, Kirk. “Eyes on the Ought to Be”: What We Teach When We Teach About Literacy. Cresskill: Hampton P, 2007. Print.

Brandt, Deborah. Literacy in American Lives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2001. Print.

Cain, Mary Ann. “Bringing It Home: The Struggle for Public Space in Education.” JAC. 29.4. (2009): 833-842. Print.

Calhoun, Craig. Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. Print.

Callahan, Kevin J. Demonstration Culture: European Socialism and the Second International, 1889-1914. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing Itd, 2010. Print.

Cintron, Ralph. Angels’ Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday. Boston: Beacon P, 1997. Print.

Coogan, David. “Community Literacy as Civic Dialogue.” Community Literacy Journal 1.1 (2006): 96–108. Print.

Coogan, David J. “Counterpublics in Public Housing: Reframing the Politics of Service-Learning.” College English. 67.5 (2005): 461-82. Print.

Coogan, David J. “Service Learning and Social Change: The Case for Materialist Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication. 57.4 (2006): 667-93. Print.

Croteau, D., Hoynes, W., & Ryan, C., Eds. Rhyming hope and history: activists, academics, and social movement scholarship. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Print.

Crowley, Sharon. Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism. Pittsburg: U of Pittsburg P, 2006. Print.

Cushman, Ellen. “The Public Intellectual, Service Learning and Activist Research.” College English. 61.3 (1999): 328-36. Print.

Cushman, Ellen. The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community. New York: SUNY P, 1998. Print.

de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1984. Print.

Deans, Thomas. Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition. New York: NCTE, 2000. Print.

Deans, Thomas, Barbara Roswell, Adrian J. Wurr. Writing and Community Engagement: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. Print.

DeGenaro, William. Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007. Print.

Del Gandio, Jason. Rhetoric for Radicals. New Society Publishers, 2008.  Print.

Elspeth, Stuckey. The Violence of Literacy. Heineman, 1990. Print.

Ervin, Elizabeth.  "Encouraging Civic Participation among First-Year Writing Students;  or, Why Composition Class Should Be More Like a Bowling Team." Rhetoric Review 15.2 (Spring 1997):  382-399. Print.

Ervin, Elizabeth. "Rhetorical Situations and the Straits of Inappropriateness: Teaching Feminist Activism." Rhetoric Review 25.3 (2006): 316-333. Print.

Ervin, Elizabeth. "Teaching Public Literacy: The Partisanship Problem." College English 68.4 (Mar. 2006): 407-421. Print.

Euben, J. Peter.  "Taking It to the Streets:  Radical Democracy and Radicalizing Theory."  Radical Democracy:  Identity, Citizenship, and the State.  Ed. David Trend.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  62-80. Print.

Flacks, Richard.  "Reviving Democratic Activism:  Thoughts about Strategy in a Dark Time."  Radical Democracy:  Identity, Citizenship, and the State.  Ed. David Trend.  New York:  Routledge, 1996.  102-116. Print.

Fleming, David. City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2008. Print.

Flower, Linda. Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Engagement. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2008. Print.

Flower, Linda “Talking Across Difference: Intercultural Rhetoric and the Search for Situated Knowledge.” College Composition and Communication 55.1 (2003): 38–68. Print.

Fraser, Nancy. Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989. Print.

George, Diana.  "Changing the Face of Poverty:  Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation."  Popular Literacy:  Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics. Ed. John Trimbur.  U Pittsburgh P, 2001.  209-228. Print.

George, Diana. “The Word on the Street: Public Discourse in a Culture of Disconnect.” Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Community Literacy 2.2 (2002): 5–18. Print.

Goldblatt, Eli. “Alinsky’s Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood-Based Literacy Projects.” College English 67.3 (2005): 274–94. Print.

Grabill, Jeffery T.  Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change. Albany: SUNY P, 2001. Print.

Greene, Ronald Walter. “Rhetorical Pedagogy as a Postal System: Circulating Subjects through Michael Warner’s ‘Publics and Counterpublics.’” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88.1 (2002): 434–43. Print.

Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Berger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Print.

Hale, C. R., Ed. Engaging contradictions: Theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. Print.

Harris, Joseph.  "Reclaiming the Public Sphere."  College English 59.3 (March 1997):  324-31. Print.

Harter, Lynn M., Edwards, Autumn, McClanahan, Andrea, Hopson, Mark C.  and Evelyn Carson-Stern. “Organizing for Survival and Social Change: The Case of StreetWise.” Communication Studies.55.2 (2004):407-424. Print.

Hauser, Gerard A., and Amy Grim. Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices in Civic Engagement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print.

Hiduke, James J. “Public Writing: The Aggressive Dimension.” College Composition and Communication. 25.4 (1974): 303-305. Print.

Higgins, Lorraine, and Lisa D. Brush. “Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate: Writing the Wrongs of Welfare.” College Composition and Communication. 57.4 (2006): 694–729. Print.

Higgins, Lorraine, Elenore Long, and Linda Flower. “A Rhetorical Model of Community Literacy.” Community Literacy Journal 1.1 (2006): 9–42. Print.

Horner, Bruce. Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique. Albany, NY: U of New York P, 2000. Print.

Howard, Ursula. “History of Writing in the Community.” Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text. Ed. Charles Bazerman. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008. 237-54. Print.

Isaacs, Emily and Phoebe Jackson. Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text. Boynton/Cook, 2001. Print.

Jensen, Robert. Writing Dissent. Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. Print.

Kahn, Seth and Jong Hwa Lee. Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement. New York: Routledge, 2011. Print.

Kroll, Barry.  "Arguing about Public Issues:  What Can We Gain from Practical Ethics?"  Rhetoric Review 16.1 (Fall 1997):  105-119. Print.

Lazere, Donald. "Postmodern Pluralism and the Retreat from Political Literacy." JAC 25.2 (2005): 257-293. Print.

Mathieu, Paula and Diana George. “Not Going It Alone: Public Writing, Independent Media, and the Circulation of Homeless Advocacy.” College Composition and Communication. 61.1 (2009):130-150. Print.

Mathieu, Paula. Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2005. Print.

Mathieu, Paula, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp. Circulating Communities: Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing. New York: Lexington Books, 2012. Print.

McComisky, Bruce, and Cynthia Ryan, eds.  City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices. Albany: SUNY P, 2003. Print.

Mentzell Ryder, Phyllis. Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. Print.

Miller, Thomas P.  "Rhetoric Within and Without Composition:  Reimagining the Civic."  Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum.  Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000.  32-41. Print.

Mortenson, Peter. “Going Public.” College Composition and Communication. 50.2 (1998): 182-205. Print.

Moss, Beverly J. A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African-American Churches. Cresskill: Hampton P, 2002. Print.

Negt, Oskar, and Alexander Kluge.  The Public Sphere and Experience:  Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and the Proletarian Public Sphere.  Minneapolis:  U Minnesota P, 1993. Print.

Nystrand, Martin, and John Duffy, eds. Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2003. Print.

Parks, Steve. Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2010. Print.

Parks, Steve and Eli Goldblatt. “Writing Beyond the Curriculum: Fostering New Collaborations in Literacy.” College English. 46.2 (2000): 584-606. Print.

Peck, Wayne, Linda Flower, and Lorraine Higgins. “Community Literacy.” College Composition and Communication 46.2 (1995): 199–222. Print.

Reynolds, Nedra. Geographies of Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 2004. Print.

Rose, Gillian.  "Spatialities of 'Community', Power and Change:  The Imagined Geographies of Community Projects."  Cultural Studies11.1 (1997). Print.

Simmons, W. Michele, and Jeffery T. Grabill. “Toward a Civic Rhetoric for Technologically and Scientifically Complex Places: Invention, Performance, and Participation.”  College Composition and Communication 58.3 (2007): 419–48. Print.

Squires, Catherine. “Rethinking the Black Public Sphere: An Alternative Vocabulary for Multiple Public Spheres.” Communication Theory 12.4 (2002): 446–68. Print.

Stevens, Sharon McKenzie. "Activist Rhetorics and the Struggle for Meaning: the Case of 'Sustainability' in the Reticulate Public Sphere." Rhetoric Review 25.3 (2006): 297-315. Print.

Swan, Susan. “Rhetoric, Service, and Social Justice.” Written Communication 19.1 (2002): 76–108. Print.

Trimbur, John. “Composition and the Circulation of Writing.” College Composition and Communication. 52.2 (2000): 188-219. Print.

Ward, Irene.  "How Democratic Can We Get?:  The Internet, the Public Sphere, and Public Discourse." JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 17.3 (1997):  365-380. Print.

Warner, Michael. Publics and Counterpublics. New York: Zone Books, 2005. Print.

Weisser, Christian. Moving Beyond Academic Discourse: Composition Studies and the Public Sphere. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002. Print.

Welch, Nancy. Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2008. Print.

Welch, Nancy. “We’re Here and We’re not Going Anywhere: Why Working Class Rhetorical Traditions Still Matter” College English 73.3 (2011): 221-242. Print.

Wells, Susan. “Rogue Cops and Health Care: What Do We Want From Public Writing?” College Composition and Communication. 47.3 (1996): 325-41. Print. 

Rhetorics of the Body List

Rhetorics of the Body

Recently, rhetoric and composition scholars’ attention has been piqued by the rhetorical power of the material – in particular bodies. This renewed interest has been prompted in part by postmodern and feminist theories as well as by reactions against these theories; however, much of this scholarship has social justice as a goal, “identifying how rhetorical and literary productions are potentially disruptive of dominant structures which produce them” (Dickson 298).  Rhetoric and composition scholars have generally taken four approaches to studying the body. While collections like Crowley and Selzer’s Rhetorical Bodies emphasize how language about the body has bodily effects, texts like Hawhee’s Bodily Arts and Fleckenstein’s Embodied Literacy urge us to recognize how bodies and materiality participate in producing meaning. Recent work drawing from disability studies (e.g. Bruggman’s Lend Me Your Ear) focus on the impact of actual bodies, connecting notions of language directly to the body’s lived experience. Finally, some texts try to identify and reclaim bodies that historically have been left out of and ignored by rhetoric and composition.

Despite the seeming variety of approaches, rhetoric and composition’s focus on the body problematizes a disciplinary privileging of the epistemic over the ontic. Canonical Greek and Roman rhetoric texts regarded the body with suspicion and disparagement (e.g. Plato’s warnings about the body’s preference for cookery over medicine). Levy argues that, “from this lineage, we rhetors, compositionists, and theorists inherit and reinscribe our prioritization of language, ideas, words, and epistemology” (38) – often by emphasizing the power of language, ideas, and discourse over the body. Feminist theory, postmodern theory, and rhetoric of the body all trouble the long-standing philosophical tradition that the minded subject has agency over the physical body. They explore the ways the body is culturally constructed, naturally and biologically determined, and the spaces in-between. Their shared project highlights the way materiality is shaped and not-quite-constrained by dominant norms and a philosophical goal of disrupting these assumptions by insisting that the body – and indeed matter – matters, with the hope of allowing us to envision alternate worlds. 

In particular, I’m interested in reading the following list with these questions in mind:

·        How does language become inscribed on the body? What are its bodily effects? What effects does the body have on language?

·         How does the presence and shape of the body impact rhetorical productions?

·         How is the body discussed, framed, and placed in institutional discourses like those of medicine and science? And what bodies are deemed worthy of discussion? Appropriate for intervention and alteration?

·         How do the body and our experiences of embodiment affect our pedagogies?

·         What roles do materiality and the body play in histories of rhetoric?

·         How do different categories – disability, race, gender, etc. – affect who we see as a “fit” rhetor?

List: 72

Alexander, Jonathan. “Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body.”College Composition and Communication 57.1 (2005): 45-82. Print.

Baker, Lynne Rudder. Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2000. Print.

Banks, William P. “Written Through the Body: Disruptions and ‘Personal’ Writing.” College English 66.1 (2003): 21-40. Print.

Bay, Jennifer. “Screening (In)formation: Bodies and Writing in Network Culture.” Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Posthuman Age. Ed. Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson. Cresskill: Hampton P, 2008. 25-40. Print.

Bennet, Michael and Vanessa Dickerson. Recovering the Black Female Body: Self Representation by African American Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001. Print.

Birke, Lynda. Feminism and the Biological Body. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000. Print.

Birmingham, Elizabeth. “Another Fine Mess: The Pregnant Body and the Discipline of the Line.” Writing on the Edge 14.2 (2004): 95-109. Print.

Boler, Megan. “Hypes, Hopes and Actualities: New Digital Cartesianism and Bodies in Cyberspace.” New Media & Society 9.1 (2007): 139-168. Print.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.  10^th Anniversary Ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003. Print.

Bray, Abigail and Claire Colebrook. “The Haunted Flesh: Corporeal Feminism and the Politics of (Dis)Embodiment.” Signs 24.1 (1998): 35-67. Print.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness. Washington, DC: Gallaudet UP, 1999. Print.

—. “An Enabling Pedagogy: Meditations on Writing and Disability.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory21.4 (2001): 791-820. Print.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, Linda Feldmeier White, Patricia A. Dunn, Barbara A. Heifferon, and Cheu Johnson. “Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability.” College Composition and Communication 52.3 (2001): 368-98. Print.

Brush, Pippa. “Metaphors of Inscription: Discipline, Plasticity and the Rhetoric of Choice.” Feminist Review58 (1998): 22-43. Print.

Buchanan, Lindal. Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005. Print.

Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge, 1993. Print.

Cixous, Helene, Keith Cohen, and Paula Cohen. “The Laugh of the Medusa.” Signs. 1.4 (Summer 1976): 875-893. Print.

Coleman, Rebecca. “The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Media Effects, and Body Image.” Feminist Media Studies 8.2 (2008): 163-179. Print.

Connor, David J., and Beth A. Ferri. Learning Disabilities. Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly30.2 (2010). Web. 27 Nov. 2011.

Corker, Mairian and Tom Shakespeare, eds. Disability/Postmodernity: Embodying Political Theory. London: Continuum, 2002. Print.

Crable, Bryan. “Symbolizing Motion: Burke’s Dialectic and Rhetoric of the Body.” Rhetoric Review. 22.2 (2003): 121-137. Print.

Crowley, Sharon and Jack Selzer, eds. Rhetorical Bodies. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1999. Print.

Davis, Lennard, ed. The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.

de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1984. Print.

Dolmage, Jay. “Breathe Upon Us An Even Flame: Hephaestus, History and the Body of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review 25.2 (2006): 119-40. Print.

—. “Metis, Mętis, Mestiza, Medusa: Rhetorical Bodies across Rhetorical Traditions.” Rhetoric Review 28.1 (2009): 1-28. Print.

—. “Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island.” Cultural Critique 77 (2011): 24-69. Print.

—. “Between the Valley and the Field: Metaphor and the Construction of Disability.” Prose Studies 27.1 (2005): 108-19. Print.

—. “Disability Studies Pedagogy, Usability and Universal Design.” Disability Studies Quarterly 25.4 (2005). Print.

Durham, Meenakshi. “Body Matters: Resuscitating the Corporeal in a New Media Environment.” Feminist Media Studies 11.1 (2011): 53-60. Print.

Fixmer, Natalies and Julia T. Wood. “The Personal is Still Political: Embodied Politics in Third Wave Feminism.” Women’s Studies in Communication 28.2 (2005): 235-57. Print.

Fleckenstein, Kristie S. “Bodysigns: A Biorhetoric for Change.” JAC: A Journal of Advanced Composition Theory 21.4 (2001): 761-90. Print.

---. Embodied Literacies: Imageword and the Poetics of Teaching. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. Print.

---. “Writing Bodies: Somatic Mind in Composition Studies.” College English 61.3 (1999): 281-306. Print.

Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. New York: Vintage, 1994. Print.

---. History of Sexuality: v1. New York: Vintage, 1994. Print.

---. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Boston: U of Massachusetts P, 1988. Print.

Freedman, Diane P., and Martha Stoddard Holmes, eds. The Teacher’s Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy. Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. Print.

Gibson, Barbara E. “Disability, Connectivity and Transgressing the Autonomous Body.” Journal of Medical Humanities 27.3 (2006): 187-96. Print.

Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. Print.

Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991. Print.

Harold, Christine L. “The Rhetorical Function of the Abject Body: Transgressive Corporeality in Trainspotting.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (2000): 865-87. Print.

Harrington, Dana. “Remembering the Body: Eighteenth-Century Elocution and the Oral Tradition.”Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 28.1 (2010): 67-95. Print.

Hartsock, Nancy C.M. “Experience, Embodiment and Epistemologies.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 21.2 (2006): 178-83. Print.

Hawhee, Debra. Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Austin: U of Texas P, 2004. Print.

—. Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2009. Print.

Hesford, Wendy S. “Rereading Rape Stories: Material Rhetoric and the Trauma of Representation.”College English 62.2 (1999): 192-221. Print.

Hindman, Jane E. “Writing an Important Body of Scholarship: A Proposal for an Embodied Rhetoric of Professional Practice.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 22.1 (2002): 93-118. Print.

Iwanicki, Christine E. “Living Out Loud within the Body of the Letter: Theoretical Underpinnings of the Materiality of Language.” College English 65.5 (2003): 494-510. Print.

Jack, Jordynn, ed. Neurorhetorics. Special Issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40.5 (2010). Print.

Johnson, Nan. Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002. Print.

Jordan, John W. “The Rhetorical Limits of the Plastic Body.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech 90.3 (2004): 327-58. Print.

Juarez, Marissa Marie. Bodily Force and Rhetorical Function in the Afro-Brazilian Art Form of Capoeira. Diss. University of Arizona, 2012. Tucson, AZ. Print.

Jung, Julie. “Textual Mainstreaming and Rhetorics of Accomodation.” Rhetoric Review 26.2 (2007): 160-78. Print.

Kates, Susan. “The Embodied Rhetoric of Hallie Quinn Brown.” College English 59.1 (1997): 59-71. Print.

Kazan, Tina S. “Dancing Bodies in the Classroom: Moving Toward an Embodied Pedagogy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Composition, and Culture 5.3 (2005): 379-408. Print.

Kennedy, Kristen. “Hipparchia the Cynic: Feminist Rhetoric and the Ethics of Embodiment.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 14.2 (1999): 48-71. Print.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. “Appeals to the Body in Eco-Rhetoric and Techno-Rhetoric.” Rhetorics and Technologies: New Directions in Writing and Communication. Ed. Stuart Selber. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2010. 79-93. Print.

Kuppers, Petra. Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on the Edge. Routledge: New York, 2003. Print.

Lay, Mary M. The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Gender, Knowledge, and Power. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000. Print.

Lay, Mary M., Laura J. Gurak, Clare Gravon, and Cynthia Myntti, eds. Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2000. Print.

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